Data processing with a plane computer

ABSTRACT

Lines of code/data may be processed on one or more planes, wherein a predetermined number of processors may process each line of code/data within the one or more planes. Additionally, each line of code may be processed with their own processor on a plane. Furthermore, a multiplicity of planes of processors may be stacked such that within each plane, thousands of lines of code may be processed separately and simultaneously by each one and/or a group of the predetermined number processors to provide great encryption abilities. In addition, each processor may be programmed differently and/or separately because each line of codes are processed separately. Processing of each line of code separately with different processors alleviates hacking of the system because each processor only reads or executes lines of code in it&#39;s assigned plane.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

The present Utility patent application claims priority benefit of the[U.S. provisional application patent Ser. No. 62/282,951 entitled “PLANECOMPUTER” filed 17 Aug. 2015 under 35 U.S.C. 119(e). The contents ofthis related provisional application are incorporated herein byreference for all purposes to the extent that such subject matter is notinconsistent herewith or limiting hereof.

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BACKGROUND OF THE RELEVANT PRIOR ART

One or more embodiments of the invention generally relate to a computerprocessing architecture. More particularly, certain embodiments of theinvention relates to parallel computer processing.

The following background information may present examples of specificaspects of the prior art (e.g., without limitation, approaches, facts,or common wisdom) that, while expected to be helpful to further educatethe reader as to additional aspects of the prior art, is not to beconstrued as limiting the present invention, or any embodiments thereof.The following is an example of a specific aspect in the prior art that,while expected to be helpful to further educate the reader as toadditional aspects of the prior art, is not to be construed as limitingthe present invention, or any embodiments thereof, to anything stated orimplied therein or inferred thereupon. By way of educational background,another aspect of the prior art generally useful to be aware of is thatconventional computers may include a computer processor that may readand execute a multiplicity of lines of software, wherein the softwaremay be in a form of computer-readable instructions (code) that whenexecuted may cause the conventional computers to possibly carry outtasks such as, data receiving, data storage, data processing,computations, data sending, data display, and further transmittingcomputer-readable instructions to other computing devices, etc.Typically, the reading and executing of the multiplicity of lines ofcode may be performed by a conventional single computer processor,processing down the software, one line of code at a time. FIG. 1illustrates an exemplary conventional computer processing techniqueillustrating a general processing direction of code. More particularly,and by way of example, for exemplary software comprising two lines ofcode, the single processor may read across a first line of code toexecute the first line of code, then proceed down to a second line ofcode, and may read across the second line of code, to execute the secondline of code. In cases where software may comprise more lines of code, aconventional processor may continue in this fashion by reading/executingacross each line of code before proceeding down to a next line of codeand repeating the process. It may be contemplated that for large amountsof software, comprising many lines of code to be read and processed, asingle processor possibly reading and executing the large amount ofsoftware may be conceptually perceived as data going through an hourglass. Some conventional computers may process eight parallel lines ofcode, while other conventional computers may consist of amulti-processor ring and star topology.

In view of the foregoing, it is clear that these traditional techniquesare not perfect and leave room for more optimal approaches.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The present invention is illustrated by way of example, and not by wayof limitation, in the figures of the accompanying drawings and in whichlike reference numerals refer to similar elements and in which:

FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary conventional computer processingtechnique illustrating a general processing direction of code;

FIG. 2 illustrates am exemplary computer system, in accordance with anembodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3, illustrates an exemplary plane of a plane computer, inaccordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4, illustrates an exemplary configuration of a multiplicity ofplanes of a plane computer system, in accordance with an embodiment ofthe present invention;

FIG. 5, illustrates an exemplary configuration of processors of a planecomputer system, in accordance with an embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 6, illustrates another exemplary configuration of processors of aplane computer system, in accordance with an embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 7 illustrates a software module architecture of an exemplary planecomputer system, in accordance with an embodiment of the presentinvention.

Unless otherwise indicated illustrations in the figures are notnecessarily drawn to scale.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF SOME EMBODIMENTS

The present invention is best understood by reference to the detailedfigures and description set forth herein.

Embodiments of the invention are discussed below with reference to theFigures. However, those skilled in the art will readily appreciate thatthe detailed description given herein with respect to these figures isfor explanatory purposes as the invention extends beyond these limitedembodiments. For example, it should be appreciated that those skilled inthe art will, in light of the teachings of the present invention,recognize a multiplicity of alternate and suitable approaches, dependingupon the needs of the particular application, to implement thefunctionality of any given detail described herein, beyond theparticular implementation choices in the following embodiments describedand shown. That is, there are modifications and variations of theinvention that are too numerous to be listed but that all fit within thescope of the invention. Also, singular words should be read as pluraland vice versa and masculine as feminine and vice versa, whereappropriate, and alternative embodiments do not necessarily imply thatthe two are mutually exclusive.

It is to be further understood that the present invention is not limitedto the particular methodology, compounds, materials, manufacturingtechniques, uses, and applications, described herein, as these may vary.It is also to be understood that the terminology used herein is used forthe purpose of describing particular embodiments only, and is notintended to limit the scope of the present invention. It must be notedthat as used herein and in the appended claims, the singular forms “a,”“an,” and “the” include the plural reference unless the context clearlydictates otherwise. Thus, for example, a reference to “an element” is areference to one or more elements and includes equivalents thereof knownto those skilled in the art. Similarly, for another example, a referenceto “a step” or “a means” is a reference to one or more steps or meansand may include sub-steps and subservient means. All conjunctions usedare to be understood in the most inclusive sense possible. Thus, theword “or” should be understood as having the definition of a logical“or” rather than that of a logical “exclusive or” unless the contextclearly necessitates otherwise. Structures described herein are to beunderstood also to refer to functional equivalents of such structures.Language that may be construed to express approximation should be sounderstood unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.

All words of approximation as used in the present disclosure and claimsshould be construed to mean “approximate,” rather than “perfect,” andmay accordingly be employed as a meaningful modifier to any other word,specified parameter, quantity, quality, or concept. Words ofapproximation, include, yet are not limited to terms such as“substantial”, “nearly”, “almost”, “about”, “generally”, “largely”,“essentially”, “closely approximate”, etc.

As will be established in some detail below, it is well settle law, asearly as 1939, that words of approximation are not indefinite in theclaims even when such limits are not defined or specified in thespecification.

For example, see Ex parte Mallory, 52 USPQ 297, 297 (Pat. Off. Bd. App.1941) where the court said “The examiner has held that most of theclaims are inaccurate because apparently the laminar film will not beentirely eliminated. The claims specify that the film is “substantially”eliminated and for the intended purpose, it is believed that the slightportion of the film which may remain is negligible. We are of the view,therefore, that the claims may be regarded as sufficiently accurate.”

Note that claims need only “reasonably apprise those skilled in the art”as to their scope to satisfy the definiteness requirement. See EnergyAbsorption Sys., Inc. v. Roadway Safety Servs., Inc., Civ. App. 96-1264,slip op. at 10 (Fed. Cir. Jul. 3, 1997) (unpublished) Hybridtech v.Monoclonal Antibodies, Inc., 802 F.2d 1367, 1385, 231 USPQ 81, 94 (Fed.Cir. 1986), cert. denied, 480 U.S. 947 (1987). In addition, the use ofmodifiers in the claim, like “generally” and “substantial,” does not byitself render the claims indefinite. See Seattle Box Co. v. IndustrialCrating & Packing, Inc., 731 F.2d 818, 828-29, 221 USPQ 568, 575-76(Fed. Cir. 1984).

Moreover, the ordinary and customary meaning of terms like“substantially” includes “reasonably close to: nearly, almost, about”,connoting a term of approximation. See In re Frye, Appeal No.2009-006013, 94 USPQ2d 1072, 1077, 2010 WL 889747 (B.P.A.I. 2010)Depending on its usage, the word “substantially” can denote eitherlanguage of approximation or language of magnitude. Deering PrecisionInstruments, L.L.C. v. Vector Distribution Sys., Inc., 347 F.3d 1314,1323 (Fed. Cir. 2003) (recognizing the “dual ordinary meaning of th[e]term [“substantially”] as connoting a term of approximation or a term ofmagnitude”). Here, when referring to the “substantially halfway”limitation, the Specification uses the word “approximately” as asubstitute for the word “substantially” (Fact 4). (Fact 4). The ordinarymeaning of “substantially halfway” is thus reasonably close to or nearlyat the midpoint between the forwardmost point of the upper or outsoleand the rearwardmost point of the upper or outsole.

Similarly, the term ‘substantially’ is well recognized in case law tohave the dual ordinary meaning of connoting a term of approximation or aterm of magnitude. See Dana Corp. v. American Axle & Manufacturing,Inc., Civ. App. 04-1116, 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 18265, *13-14 (Fed. Cir.Aug. 27, 2004) (unpublished). The term “substantially” is commonly usedby claim drafters to indicate approximation. See Cordis Corp. v.Medtronic AVE Inc., 339 F.3d 1352, 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2003) (“The patentsdo not set out any numerical standard by which to determine whether thethickness of the wall surface is ‘substantially uniform.’ The term‘substantially,’ as used in this context, denotes approximation. Thus,the walls must be of largely or approximately uniform thickness.”); seealso Deering Precision Instruments, LLC v. Vector Distribution Sys.,Inc., 347 F.3d 1314, 1322 (Fed. Cir. 2003); Epcon Gas Sys., Inc. v.Bauer Compressors, Inc., 279 F.3d 1022, 1031 (Fed. Cir. 2002). We findthat the term “substantially” was used in just such a manner in theclaims of the patents-in-suit: “substantially uniform wall thickness”denotes a wall thickness with approximate uniformity.

It should also be noted that such words of approximation as contemplatedin the foregoing clearly limits the scope of claims such as saying‘generally parallel’ such that the adverb ‘generally’ does not broadenthe meaning of parallel. Accordingly, it is well settled that such wordsof approximation as contemplated in the foregoing (e.g., like the phrase‘generally parallel’) envisions some amount of deviation from perfection(e.g., not exactly parallel), and that such words of approximation ascontemplated in the foregoing are descriptive terms commonly used inpatent claims to avoid a strict numerical boundary to the specifiedparameter. To the extent that the plain language of the claims relyingon such words of approximation as contemplated in the foregoing areclear and uncontradicted by anything in the written description hereinor the figures thereof, it is improper to rely upon the present writtendescription, the figures, or the prosecution history to add limitationsto any of the claim of the present invention with respect to such wordsof approximation as contemplated in the foregoing. That is, under suchcircumstances, relying on the written description and prosecutionhistory to reject the ordinary and customary meanings of the wordsthemselves is impermissible. See, for example, Liquid Dynamics Corp. v.Vaughan Co., 355 F.3d 1361, 69 USPQ2d 1595, 1600-01 (Fed. Cir. 2004).The plain language of phrase 2 requires a “substantial helical flow.”The term “substantial” is a meaningful modifier implying “approximate,”rather than “perfect.” In Cordis Corp. v. Medtronic AVE, Inc., 339 F.3d1352, 1361 (Fed. Cir. 2003), the district court imposed a precisenumeric constraint on the term “substantially uniform thickness.” Wenoted that the proper interpretation of this term was “of largely orapproximately uniform thickness” unless something in the prosecutionhistory imposed the “clear and unmistakable disclaimer” needed fornarrowing beyond this simple-language interpretation. Id. In Anchor WallSystems v. Rockwood Retaining Walls, Inc., 340 F.3d 1298, 1311 (Fed.Cir. 2003)” Id. at 1311. Similarly, the plain language of Claim 1requires neither a perfectly helical flow nor a flow that returnsprecisely to the center after one rotation (a limitation that arisesonly as a logical consequence of requiring a perfectly helical flow).

The reader should appreciate that case law generally recognizes a dualordinary meaning of such words of approximation, as contemplated in theforegoing, as connoting a term of approximation or a term of magnitude;e.g., see Deering Precision Instruments, L.L.C. v. Vector Distrib. Sys.,Inc., 347 F.3d 1314, 68 USPQ2d 1716, 1721 (Fed. Cir. 2003), cert.denied, 124 S. Ct. 1426 (2004) where the court was asked to construe themeaning of the term “substantially” in a patent claim. Also see Epcon,279 F.3d at 1031 (“The phrase ‘substantially constant’ denotes languageof approximation, while the phrase ‘substantially below’ signifieslanguage of magnitude, i.e., not insubstantial.”). Also, see, e.g.,Epcon Gas Sys., Inc. v. Bauer Compressors, Inc., 279 F.3d 1022 (Fed.Cir. 2002) (construing the terms “substantially constant” and“substantially below”); Zodiac Pool Care, Inc. v. Hoffinger Indus.,Inc., 206 F.3d 1408 (Fed. Cir. 2000) (construing the term “substantiallyinward”); York Prods., Inc. v. Cent. Tractor Farm & Family Ctr., 99 F.3d1568 (Fed. Cir. 1996) (construing the term “substantially the entireheight thereof”); Tex. Instruments Inc. v. Cypress Semiconductor Corp.,90 F.3d 1558 (Fed. Cir. 1996) (construing the term “substantially in thecommon plane”). In conducting their analysis, the court instructed tobegin with the ordinary meaning of the claim terms to one of ordinaryskill in the art. Prima Tek, 318 F.3d at 1148. Reference to dictionariesand our cases indicates that the term “substantially” has numerousordinary meanings. As the district court stated, “substantially” canmean “significantly” or “considerably.” The term “substantially” canalso mean “largely” or “essentially.” Webster's New 20th CenturyDictionary 1817 (1983).

Words of approximation, as contemplated in the foregoing, may also beused in phrases establishing approximate ranges or limits, where the endpoints are inclusive and approximate, not perfect; e.g., see AK SteelCorp. v. Sollac, 344 F.3d 1234, 68 USPQ2d 1280, 1285 (Fed. Cir. 2003)where it where the court said [W]e conclude that the ordinary meaning ofthe phrase “up to about 10%” includes the “about 10%” endpoint. Aspointed out by AK Steel, when an object of the preposition “up to” isnonnumeric, the most natural meaning is to exclude the object (e.g.,painting the wall up to the door). On the other hand, as pointed out bySollac, when the object is a numerical limit, the normal meaning is toinclude that upper numerical limit (e.g., counting up to ten, seatingcapacity for up to seven passengers). Because we have here a numericallimit—“about 10%”—the ordinary meaning is that that endpoint isincluded.

In the present specification and claims, a goal of employment of suchwords of approximation, as contemplated in the foregoing, is to avoid astrict numerical boundary to the modified specified parameter, assanctioned by Pall Corp. v. Micron Separations, Inc., 66 F.3d 1211,1217, 36 USPQ2d 1225, 1229 (Fed. Cir. 1995) where it states “It is wellestablished that when the term “substantially” serves reasonably todescribe the subject matter so that its scope would be understood bypersons in the field of the invention, and to distinguish the claimedsubject matter from the prior art, it is not indefinite.” Likewise seeVerve LLC v. Crane Cams Inc., 311 F.3d 1116, 65 USPQ2d 1051, 1054 (Fed.Cir. 2002). Expressions such as “substantially” are used in patentdocuments when warranted by the nature of the invention, in order toaccommodate the minor variations that may be appropriate to secure theinvention. Such usage may well satisfy the charge to “particularly pointout and distinctly claim” the invention, 35 U.S.C. § 112, and indeed maybe necessary in order to provide the inventor with the benefit of hisinvention. In Andrew Corp. v. Gabriel Elecs. Inc., 847 F.2d 819, 821-22,6 USPQ2d 2010, 2013 (Fed. Cir. 1988) the court explained that usagessuch as “substantially equal” and “closely approximate” may serve todescribe the invention with precision appropriate to the technology andwithout intruding on the prior art. The court again explained in EcolabInc. v. Envirochem, Inc., 264 F.3d 1358, 1367, 60 USPQ2d 1173, 1179(Fed. Cir. 2001) that “like the term ‘about,’ the term ‘substantially’is a descriptive term commonly used in patent claims to ‘avoid a strictnumerical boundary to the specified parameter, see Ecolab Inc. v.Envirochem Inc., 264 F.3d 1358, 60 USPQ2d 1173, 1179 (Fed. Cir. 2001)where the court found that the use of the term “substantially” to modifythe term “uniform” does not render this phrase so unclear such thatthere is no means by which to ascertain the claim scope.

Similarly, other courts have noted that like the term “about,” the term“substantially” is a descriptive term commonly used in patent claims to“avoid a strict numerical boundary to the specified parameter.”; e.g.,see Pall Corp. v. Micron Seps., 66 F.3d 1211, 1217, 36 USPQ2d 1225, 1229(Fed. Cir. 1995); see, e.g., Andrew Corp. v. Gabriel Elecs. Inc., 847F.2d 819, 821-22, 6 USPQ2d 2010, 2013 (Fed. Cir. 1988) (noting thatterms such as “approach each other,” “close to,” “substantially equal,”and “closely approximate” are ubiquitously used in patent claims andthat such usages, when serving reasonably to describe the claimedsubject matter to those of skill in the field of the invention, and todistinguish the claimed subject matter from the prior art, have beenaccepted in patent examination and upheld by the courts). In this case,“substantially” avoids the strict 100% nonuniformity boundary.

Indeed, the foregoing sanctioning of such words of approximation, ascontemplated in the foregoing, has been established as early as 1939,see Ex parte Mallory, 52 USPQ 297, 297 (Pat. Off. Bd. App. 1941) where,for example, the court said “the claims specify that the film is“substantially” eliminated and for the intended purpose, it is believedthat the slight portion of the film which may remain is negligible. Weare of the view, therefore, that the claims may be regarded assufficiently accurate.” Similarly, In re Hutchison, 104 F.2d 829, 42USPQ 90, 93 (C.C.P.A. 1939) the court said “It is realized that“substantial distance” is a relative and somewhat indefinite term, orphrase, but terms and phrases of this character are not uncommon inpatents in cases where, according to the art involved, the meaning canbe determined with reasonable clearness.”

Hence, for at least the forgoing reason, Applicants submit that it isimproper for any examiner to hold as indefinite any claims of thepresent patent that employ any words of approximation.

Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used hereinhave the same meanings as commonly understood by one of ordinary skillin the art to which this invention belongs. Preferred methods,techniques, devices, and materials are described, although any methods,techniques, devices, or materials similar or equivalent to thosedescribed herein may be used in the practice or testing of the presentinvention. Structures described herein are to be understood also torefer to functional equivalents of such structures. The presentinvention will be described in detail below with reference toembodiments thereof as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

References to a “device,” an “apparatus,” a “system,” etc., in thepreamble of a claim should be construed broadly to mean “any structuremeeting the claim terms” exempt for any specific structure(s)/type(s)that has/(have) been explicitly disavowed or excluded oradmitted/implied as prior art in the present specification or incapableof enabling an object/aspect/goal of the invention. Furthermore, wherethe present specification discloses an object, aspect, function, goal,result, or advantage of the invention that a specific prior artstructure and/or method step is similarly capable of performing yet in avery different way, the present invention disclosure is intended to andshall also implicitly include and cover additional correspondingalternative embodiments that are otherwise identical to that explicitlydisclosed except that they exclude such prior art structure(s)/step(s),and shall accordingly be deemed as providing sufficient disclosure tosupport a corresponding negative limitation in a claim claiming suchalternative embodiment(s), which exclude such very different prior artstructure(s)/step(s) way(s).

From reading the present disclosure, other variations and modificationswill be apparent to persons skilled in the art. Such variations andmodifications may involve equivalent and other features which arealready known in the art, and which may be used instead of or inaddition to features already described herein.

Although Claims have been formulated in this Application to particularcombinations of features, it should be understood that the scope of thedisclosure of the present invention also includes any novel feature orany novel combination of features disclosed herein either explicitly orimplicitly or any generalization thereof, whether or not it relates tothe same invention as presently claimed in any Claim and whether or notit mitigates any or all of the same technical problems as does thepresent invention.

Features which are described in the context of separate embodiments mayalso be provided in combination in a single embodiment. Conversely,various features which are, for brevity, described in the context of asingle embodiment, may also be provided separately or in any suitablesubcombination. The Applicants hereby give notice that new Claims may beformulated to such features and/or combinations of such features duringthe prosecution of the present Application or of any further Applicationderived therefrom.

References to “one embodiment,” “an embodiment,” “example embodiment,”“various embodiments,” “some embodiments,” “embodiments of theinvention,” etc., may indicate that the embodiment(s) of the inventionso described may include a particular feature, structure, orcharacteristic, but not every possible embodiment of the inventionnecessarily includes the particular feature, structure, orcharacteristic. Further, repeated use of the phrase “in one embodiment,”or “in an exemplary embodiment,” “an embodiment,” do not necessarilyrefer to the same embodiment, although they may. Moreover, any use ofphrases like “embodiments” in connection with “the invention” are nevermeant to characterize that all embodiments of the invention must includethe particular feature, structure, or characteristic, and should insteadbe understood to mean “at least some embodiments of the invention”includes the stated particular feature, structure, or characteristic.

References to “user”, or any similar term, as used herein, may mean ahuman or non-human user thereof. Moreover, “user”, or any similar term,as used herein, unless expressly stipulated otherwise, is contemplatedto mean users at any stage of the usage process, to include, withoutlimitation, direct user(s), intermediate user(s), indirect user(s), andend user(s). The meaning of “user”, or any similar term, as used herein,should not be otherwise inferred or induced by any pattern(s) ofdescription, embodiments, examples, or referenced prior-art that may (ormay not) be provided in the present patent.

References to “end user”, or any similar term, as used herein, isgenerally intended to mean late stage user(s) as opposed to early stageuser(s). Hence, it is contemplated that there may be a multiplicity ofdifferent types of “end user” near the end stage of the usage process.Where applicable, especially with respect to distribution channels ofembodiments of the invention comprising consumed retailproducts/services thereof (as opposed to sellers/vendors or OriginalEquipment Manufacturers), examples of an “end user” may include, withoutlimitation, a “consumer”, “buyer”, “customer”, “purchaser”, “shopper”,“enjoyer”, “viewer”, or individual person or non-human thing benefitingin any way, directly or indirectly, from use of, or interaction, withsome aspect of the present invention.

In some situations, some embodiments of the present invention mayprovide beneficial usage to more than one stage or type of usage in theforegoing usage process. In such cases where multiple embodimentstargeting various stages of the usage process are described, referencesto “end user”, or any similar term, as used therein, are generallyintended to not include the user that is the furthest removed, in theforegoing usage process, from the final user therein of an embodiment ofthe present invention.

Where applicable, especially with respect to retail distributionchannels of embodiments of the invention, intermediate user(s) mayinclude, without limitation, any individual person or non-human thingbenefiting in any way, directly or indirectly, from use of, orinteraction with, some aspect of the present invention with respect toselling, vending, Original Equipment Manufacturing, marketing,merchandising, distributing, service providing, and the like thereof.

References to “person”, “individual”, “human”, “a party”, “animal”,“creature”, or any similar term, as used herein, even if the context orparticular embodiment implies living user, maker, or participant, itshould be understood that such characterizations are sole by way ofexample, and not limitation, in that it is contemplated that any suchusage, making, or participation by a living entity in connection withmaking, using, and/or participating, in any way, with embodiments of thepresent invention may be substituted by such similar performed by asuitably configured non-living entity, to include, without limitation,automated machines, robots, humanoids, computational systems,information processing systems, artificially intelligent systems, andthe like. It is further contemplated that those skilled in the art willreadily recognize the practical situations where such living makers,users, and/or participants with embodiments of the present invention maybe in whole, or in part, replaced with such non-living makers, users,and/or participants with embodiments of the present invention. Likewise,when those skilled in the art identify such practical situations wheresuch living makers, users, and/or participants with embodiments of thepresent invention may be in whole, or in part, replaced with suchnon-living makers, it will be readily apparent in light of the teachingsof the present invention how to adapt the described embodiments to besuitable for such non-living makers, users, and/or participants withembodiments of the present invention. Thus, the invention is thus toalso cover all such modifications, equivalents, and alternatives fallingwithin the spirit and scope of such adaptations and modifications, atleast in part, for such non-living entities.

Headings provided herein are for convenience and are not to be taken aslimiting the disclosure in any way.

The enumerated listing of items does not imply that any or all of theitems are mutually exclusive, unless expressly specified otherwise.

It is understood that the use of specific component, device and/orparameter names are for example only and not meant to imply anylimitations on the invention. The invention may thus be implemented withdifferent nomenclature/terminology utilized to describe themechanisms/units/structures/components/devices/parameters herein,without limitation. Each term utilized herein is to be given itsbroadest interpretation given the context in which that term isutilized.

Terminology. The following paragraphs provide definitions and/or contextfor terms found in this disclosure (including the appended claims):

“Comprising.” This term is open-ended. As used in the appended claims,this term does not foreclose additional structure or steps. Consider aclaim that recites: “A memory controller comprising a system cache . . .” Such a claim does not foreclose the memory controller from includingadditional components (e.g., a memory channel unit, a switch).

“Configured To.” Various units, circuits, or other components may bedescribed or claimed as “configured to” perform a task or tasks. In suchcontexts, “configured to” or “operable for” is used to connote structureby indicating that the mechanisms/units/circuits/components includestructure (e.g., circuitry and/or mechanisms) that performs the task ortasks during operation. As such, the mechanisms/unit/circuit/componentcan be said to be configured to (or be operable) for perform(ing) thetask even when the specified mechanisms/unit/circuit/component is notcurrently operational (e.g., is not on). Themechanisms/units/circuits/components used with the “configured to” or“operable for” language include hardware—for example, mechanisms,structures, electronics, circuits, memory storing program instructionsexecutable to implement the operation, etc. Reciting that amechanism/unit/circuit/component is “configured to” or “operable for”perform(ing) one or more tasks is expressly intended not to invoke 35U.S.C. .sctn.112, sixth paragraph, for thatmechanism/unit/circuit/component. “Configured to” may also includeadapting a manufacturing process to fabricate devices or components thatare adapted to implement or perform one or more tasks.

“Based On.” As used herein, this term is used to describe one or morefactors that affect a determination. This term does not forecloseadditional factors that may affect a determination. That is, adetermination may be solely based on those factors or based, at least inpart, on those factors. Consider the phrase “determine A based on B.”While B may be a factor that affects the determination of A, such aphrase does not foreclose the determination of A from also being basedon C. In other instances, A may be determined based solely on B.

The terms “a”, “an” and “the” mean “one or more”, unless expresslyspecified otherwise.

Unless otherwise indicated, all numbers expressing conditions,concentrations, dimensions, and so forth used in the specification andclaims are to be understood as being modified in all instances by theterm “about.” Accordingly, unless indicated to the contrary, thenumerical parameters set forth in the following specification andattached claims are approximations that may vary depending at least upona specific analytical technique.

The term “comprising,” which is synonymous with “including,”“containing,” or “characterized by” is inclusive or open-ended and doesnot exclude additional, unrecited elements or method steps. “Comprising”is a term of art used in claim language which means that the named claimelements are essential, but other claim elements may be added and stillform a construct within the scope of the claim.

As used herein, the phase “consisting of” excludes any element, step, oringredient not specified in the claim. When the phrase “consists of” (orvariations thereof) appears in a clause of the body of a claim, ratherthan immediately following the preamble, it limits only the element setforth in that clause; other elements are not excluded from the claim asa whole. As used herein, the phase “consisting essentially of” and“consisting of” limits the scope of a claim to the specified elements ormethod steps, plus those that do not materially affect the basis andnovel characteristic(s) of the claimed subject matter (see Norian Corp.v Stryker Corp., 363 F.3d 1321, 1331-32, 70 USPQ2d 1508, Fed. Cir.2004). Moreover, for any claim of the present invention which claims anembodiment “consisting essentially of” or “consisting of” a certain setof elements of any herein described embodiment it shall be understood asobvious by those skilled in the art that the present invention alsocovers all possible varying scope variants of any describedembodiment(s) that are each exclusively (i.e., “consisting essentiallyof”) functional subsets or functional combination thereof such that eachof these plurality of exclusive varying scope variants each consistsessentially of any functional subset(s) and/or functional combination(s)of any set of elements of any described embodiment(s) to the exclusionof any others not set forth therein. That is, it is contemplated that itwill be obvious to those skilled how to create a multiplicity ofalternate embodiments of the present invention that simply consistingessentially of a certain functional combination of elements of anydescribed embodiment(s) to the exclusion of any others not set forththerein, and the invention thus covers all such exclusive embodiments asif they were each described herein.

With respect to the terms “comprising,” “consisting of” and “consistingessentially of” where one of these three terms is used herein, thepresently disclosed and claimed subject matter may include the use ofeither of the other two terms. Thus in some embodiments not otherwiseexplicitly recited, any instance of “comprising” may be replaced by“consisting of” or, alternatively, by “consisting essentially of”, andthus, for the purposes of claim support and construction for “consistingof” format claims, such replacements operate to create yet otheralternative embodiments “consisting essentially of” only the elementsrecited in the original “comprising” embodiment to the exclusion of allother elements.

Devices or system modules that are in at least general communicationwith each other need not be in continuous communication with each other,unless expressly specified otherwise. In addition, devices or systemmodules that are in at least general communication with each other maycommunicate directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries.

A description of an embodiment with several components in communicationwith each other does not imply that all such components are required. Onthe contrary a variety of optional components are described toillustrate the wide variety of possible embodiments of the presentinvention.

As is well known to those skilled in the art many careful considerationsand compromises typically must be made when designing for the optimalmanufacture of a commercial implementation any system, and inparticular, the embodiments of the present invention. A commercialimplementation in accordance with the spirit and teachings of thepresent invention may configured according to the needs of theparticular application, whereby any aspect(s), feature(s), function(s),result(s), component(s), approach(es), or step(s) of the teachingsrelated to any described embodiment of the present invention may besuitably omitted, included, adapted, mixed and matched, or improvedand/or optimized by those skilled in the art, using their average skillsand known techniques, to achieve the desired implementation thataddresses the needs of the particular application.

In the following description and claims, the terms “coupled” and“connected,” along with their derivatives, may be used. It should beunderstood that these terms are not intended as synonyms for each other.Rather, in particular embodiments, “connected” may be used to indicatethat two or more elements are in direct physical or electrical contactwith each other. “Coupled” may mean that two or more elements are indirect physical or electrical contact. However, “coupled” may also meanthat two or more elements are not in direct contact with each other, butyet still cooperate or interact with each other.

A “computer” may refer to one or more apparatus and/or one or moresystems that are capable of accepting a structured input, processing thestructured input according to prescribed rules, and producing results ofthe processing as output. Examples of a computer may include: acomputer; a stationary and/or portable computer; a computer having asingle processor, multiple processors, or multi-core processors, whichmay operate in parallel and/or not in parallel; a general purposecomputer; a supercomputer; a mainframe; a super mini-computer; amini-computer; a workstation; a micro-computer; a server; a client; aninteractive television; a web appliance; a telecommunications devicewith internet access; a hybrid combination of a computer and aninteractive television; a portable computer; a tablet personal computer(PC); a personal digital assistant (PDA); a portable telephone;application-specific hardware to emulate a computer and/or software,such as, for example, a digital signal processor (DSP), afield-programmable gate array (FPGA), an application specific integratedcircuit (ASIC), an application specific instruction-set processor(ASIP), a chip, chips, a system on a chip, or a chip set; a dataacquisition device; an optical computer; a quantum computer; abiological computer; and generally, an apparatus that may accept data,process data according to one or more stored software programs, generateresults, and typically include input, output, storage, arithmetic,logic, and control units.

Those of skill in the art will appreciate that where appropriate, someembodiments of the disclosure may be practiced in network computingenvironments with many types of computer system configurations,including personal computers, hand-held devices, multi-processorsystems, microprocessor-based or programmable consumer electronics,network PCs, minicomputers, mainframe computers, and the like. Whereappropriate, embodiments may also be practiced in distributed computingenvironments where tasks are performed by local and remote processingdevices that are linked (either by hardwired links, wireless links, orby a combination thereof) through a communications network. In adistributed computing environment, program modules may be located inboth local and remote memory storage devices.

“Software” may refer to prescribed rules to operate a computer. Examplesof software may include: code segments in one or more computer-readablelanguages; graphical and or/textual instructions; applets; pre-compiledcode; interpreted code; compiled code; and computer programs.

The example embodiments described herein can be implemented in anoperating environment comprising computer-executable instructions (e.g.,software) installed on a computer, in hardware, or in a combination ofsoftware and hardware. The computer-executable instructions can bewritten in a computer programming language or can be embodied infirmware logic. If written in a programming language conforming to arecognized standard, such instructions can be executed on a variety ofhardware platforms and for interfaces to a variety of operating systems.Although not limited thereto, computer software program code forcarrying out operations for aspects of the present invention can bewritten in any combination of one or more suitable programminglanguages, including an object oriented programming languages and/orconventional procedural programming languages, and/or programminglanguages such as, for example, Hyper text Markup Language (HTML),Dynamic HTML, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Extensible StylesheetLanguage (XSL), Document Style Semantics and Specification Language(DSSSL), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Synchronized MultimediaIntegration Language (SMIL), Wireless Markup Language (WML), Java™,Jini™, C, C++, Smalltalk, Perl, UNIX Shell, Visual Basic or Visual BasicScript, Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML), ColdFusion™ or othercompilers, assemblers, interpreters or other computer languages orplatforms.

Computer program code for carrying out operations for aspects of thepresent invention may be written in any combination of one or moreprogramming languages, including an object oriented programming languagesuch as Java, Smalltalk, C++ or the like and conventional proceduralprogramming languages, such as the “C” programming language or similarprogramming languages. The program code may execute entirely on theuser's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alonesoftware package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remotecomputer or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the latterscenario, the remote computer may be connected to the user's computerthrough any type of network, including a local area network (LAN) or awide area network (WAN), or the connection may be made to an externalcomputer (for example, through the Internet using an Internet ServiceProvider).

A network is a collection of links and nodes (e.g., multiple computersand/or other devices connected together) arranged so that informationmay be passed from one part of the network to another over multiplelinks and through various nodes. Examples of networks include theInternet, the public switched telephone network, the global Telexnetwork, computer networks (e.g., an intranet, an extranet, a local-areanetwork, or a wide-area network), wired networks, and wireless networks.

The Internet is a worldwide network of computers and computer networksarranged to allow the easy and robust exchange of information betweencomputer users. Hundreds of millions of people around the world haveaccess to computers connected to the Internet via Internet ServiceProviders (ISPs). Content providers (e.g., website owners or operators)place multimedia information (e.g., text, graphics, audio, video,animation, and other forms of data) at specific locations on theInternet referred to as webpages. Websites comprise a collection ofconnected, or otherwise related, webpages. The combination of all thewebsites and their corresponding webpages on the Internet is generallyknown as the World Wide Web (WWW) or simply the Web.

Aspects of the present invention are described below with reference toflowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus(systems) and computer program products according to embodiments of theinvention. It will be understood that each block of the flowchartillustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of blocks in theflowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented bycomputer program instructions. These computer program instructions maybe provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, specialpurpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus toproduce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via theprocessor of the computer or other programmable data processingapparatus, create means for implementing the functions/acts specified inthe flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.

The flowchart and block diagrams in the figures illustrate thearchitecture, functionality, and operation of possible implementationsof systems, methods and computer program products according to variousembodiments. In this regard, each block in the flowchart or blockdiagrams may represent a module, segment, or portion of code, whichcomprises one or more executable instructions for implementing thespecified logical function(s). It should also be noted that, in somealternative implementations, the functions noted in the block may occurout of the order noted in the figures. For example, two blocks shown insuccession may, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or theblocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending uponthe functionality involved. It will also be noted that each block of theblock diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, and combinations of blocksin the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, can be implementedby special purpose hardware-based systems that perform the specifiedfunctions or acts, or combinations of special purpose hardware andcomputer instructions.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computerreadable medium that can direct a computer, other programmable dataprocessing apparatus, or other devices to function in a particularmanner, such that the instructions stored in the computer readablemedium produce an article of manufacture including instructions whichimplement the function/act specified in the flowchart and/or blockdiagram block or blocks.

Further, although process steps, method steps, algorithms or the likemay be described in a sequential order, such processes, methods andalgorithms may be configured to work in alternate orders. In otherwords, any sequence or order of steps that may be described does notnecessarily indicate a requirement that the steps be performed in thatorder. The steps of processes described herein may be performed in anyorder practical. Further, some steps may be performed simultaneously.

It will be readily apparent that the various methods and algorithmsdescribed herein may be implemented by, e.g., appropriately programmedgeneral purpose computers and computing devices. Typically, a processor(e.g., a microprocessor) will receive instructions from a memory or likedevice, and execute those instructions, thereby performing a processdefined by those instructions. Further, programs that implement suchmethods and algorithms may be stored and transmitted using a variety ofknown media.

When a single device or article is described herein, it will be readilyapparent that more than one device/article (whether or not theycooperate) may be used in place of a single device/article. Similarly,where more than one device or article is described herein (whether ornot they cooperate), it will be readily apparent that a singledevice/article may be used in place of the more than one device orarticle.

The functionality and/or the features of a device may be alternativelyembodied by one or more other devices which are not explicitly describedas having such functionality/features. Thus, other embodiments of thepresent invention need not include the device itself.

The term “computer-readable medium” as used herein refers to any mediumthat participates in providing data (e.g., instructions) which may beread by a computer, a processor or a like device. Such a medium may takemany forms, including but not limited to, non-volatile media, volatilemedia, and transmission media. Non-volatile media include, for example,optical or magnetic disks and other persistent memory. Volatile mediainclude dynamic random access memory (DRAM), which typically constitutesthe main memory. Transmission media include coaxial cables, copper wireand fiber optics, including the wires that comprise a system bus coupledto the processor. Transmission media may include or convey acousticwaves, light waves and electromagnetic emissions, such as thosegenerated during radio frequency (RF) and infrared (IR) datacommunications. Common forms of computer-readable media include, forexample, a floppy disk, a flexible disk, hard disk, magnetic tape, anyother magnetic medium, a CD-ROM, DVD, any other optical medium, punchcards, paper tape, any other physical medium with patterns of holes, aRAM, a PROM, an EPROM, a FLASH-EEPROM, removable media, flash memory, a“memory stick”, any other memory chip or cartridge, a carrier wave asdescribed hereinafter, or any other medium from which a computer canread.

Various forms of computer readable media may be involved in carryingsequences of instructions to a processor. For example, sequences ofinstruction (i) may be delivered from RAM to a processor, (ii) may becarried over a wireless transmission medium, and/or (iii) may beformatted according to numerous formats, standards or protocols, such asBluetooth, TDMA, CDMA, 3G.

Where databases are described, it will be understood by one of ordinaryskill in the art that (i) alternative database structures to thosedescribed may be readily employed, (ii) other memory structures besidesdatabases may be readily employed. Any schematic illustrations andaccompanying descriptions of any sample databases presented herein areexemplary arrangements for stored representations of information. Anynumber of other arrangements may be employed besides those suggested bythe tables shown. Similarly, any illustrated entries of the databasesrepresent exemplary information only; those skilled in the art willunderstand that the number and content of the entries can be differentfrom those illustrated herein. Further, despite any depiction of thedatabases as tables, an object-based model could be used to store andmanipulate the data types of the present invention and likewise, objectmethods or behaviors can be used to implement the processes of thepresent invention.

A “computer system” may refer to a system having one or more computers,where each computer may include a computer-readable medium embodyingsoftware to operate the computer or one or more of its components.Examples of a computer system may include: a distributed computer systemfor processing information via computer systems linked by a network; twoor more computer systems connected together via a network fortransmitting and/or receiving information between the computer systems;a computer system including two or more processors within a singlecomputer; and one or more apparatuses and/or one or more systems thatmay accept data, may process data in accordance with one or more storedsoftware programs, may generate results, and typically may includeinput, output, storage, arithmetic, logic, and control units.

A “network” may refer to a number of computers and associated devicesthat may be connected by communication facilities. A network may involvepermanent connections such as cables or temporary connections such asthose made through telephone or other communication links. A network mayfurther include hard-wired connections (e.g., coaxial cable, twistedpair, optical fiber, waveguides, etc.) and/or wireless connections(e.g., radio frequency waveforms, free-space optical waveforms, acousticwaveforms, etc.). Examples of a network may include: an internet, suchas the Internet; an intranet; a local area network (LAN); a wide areanetwork (WAN); and a combination of networks, such as an internet and anintranet.

As used herein, the “client-side” application should be broadlyconstrued to refer to an application, a page associated with thatapplication, or some other resource or function invoked by a client-siderequest to the application. A “browser” as used herein is not intendedto refer to any specific browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Safari,FireFox, or the like), but should be broadly construed to refer to anyclient-side rendering engine that can access and displayInternet-accessible resources. A “rich” client typically refers to anon-HTTP based client-side application, such as an SSH or CFIS client.Further, while typically the client-server interactions occur usingHTTP, this is not a limitation either. The client server interaction maybe formatted to conform to the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) andtravel over HTTP (over the public Internet), FTP, or any other reliabletransport mechanism (such as IBM® MQSeries® technologies and CORBA, fortransport over an enterprise intranet) may be used. Any application orfunctionality described herein may be implemented as native code, byproviding hooks into another application, by facilitating use of themechanism as a plug-in, by linking to the mechanism, and the like.

Exemplary networks may operate with any of a number of protocols, suchas Internet protocol (IP), asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), and/orsynchronous optical network (SONET), user datagram protocol (UDP), IEEE802.x, etc.

Embodiments of the present invention may include apparatuses forperforming the operations disclosed herein. An apparatus may bespecially constructed for the desired purposes, or it may comprise ageneral-purpose device selectively activated or reconfigured by aprogram stored in the device.

Embodiments of the invention may also be implemented in one or acombination of hardware, firmware, and software. They may be implementedas instructions stored on a machine-readable medium, which may be readand executed by a computing platform to perform the operations describedherein.

More specifically, as will be appreciated by one skilled in the art,aspects of the present invention may be embodied as a system, method orcomputer program product. Accordingly, aspects of the present inventionmay take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirelysoftware embodiment (including firmware, resident software, micro-code,etc.) or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects that mayall generally be referred to herein as a “circuit,” “module” or“system.” Furthermore, aspects of the present invention may take theform of a computer program product embodied in one or more computerreadable medium(s) having computer readable program code embodiedthereon.

In the following description and claims, the terms “computer programmedium” and “computer readable medium” may be used to generally refer tomedia such as, but not limited to, removable storage drives, a hard diskinstalled in hard disk drive, and the like. These computer programproducts may provide software to a computer system. Embodiments of theinvention may be directed to such computer program products.

An algorithm is here, and generally, considered to be a self-consistentsequence of acts or operations leading to a desired result. Theseinclude physical manipulations of physical quantities. Usually, thoughnot necessarily, these quantities take the form of electrical ormagnetic signals capable of being stored, transferred, combined,compared, and otherwise manipulated. It has proven convenient at times,principally for reasons of common usage, to refer to these signals asbits, values, elements, symbols, characters, terms, numbers or the like.It should be understood, however, that all of these and similar termsare to be associated with the appropriate physical quantities and aremerely convenient labels applied to these quantities.

Unless specifically stated otherwise, and as may be apparent from thefollowing description and claims, it should be appreciated thatthroughout the specification descriptions utilizing terms such as“processing,” “computing,” “calculating,” “determining,” or the like,refer to the action and/or processes of a computer or computing system,or similar electronic computing device, that manipulate and/or transformdata represented as physical, such as electronic, quantities within thecomputing system's registers and/or memories into other data similarlyrepresented as physical quantities within the computing system'smemories, registers or other such information storage, transmission ordisplay devices.

Additionally, the phrase “configured to” or “operable for” can includegeneric structure (e.g., generic circuitry) that is manipulated bysoftware and/or firmware (e.g., an FPGA or a general-purpose processorexecuting software) to operate in a manner that is capable of performingthe task(s) at issue. “Configured to” may also include adapting amanufacturing process (e.g., a semiconductor fabrication facility) tofabricate devices (e.g., integrated circuits) that are adapted toimplement or perform one or more tasks.

In a similar manner, the term “processor” may refer to any device orportion of a device that processes electronic data from registers and/ormemory to transform that electronic data into other electronic data thatmay be stored in registers and/or memory. A “computing platform” maycomprise one or more processors.

Embodiments within the scope of the present disclosure may also includetangible and/or non-transitory computer-readable storage media forcarrying or having computer-executable instructions or data structuresstored thereon. Such non-transitory computer-readable storage media canbe any available media that can be accessed by a general purpose orspecial purpose computer, including the functional design of any specialpurpose processor as discussed above. By way of example, and notlimitation, such non-transitory computer-readable media can include RAM,ROM, EEPROM, CD-ROM or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storageor other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium which can be usedto carry or store desired program code means in the form ofcomputer-executable instructions, data structures, or processor chipdesign. When information is transferred or provided over a network oranother communications connection (either hardwired, wireless, orcombination thereof) to a computer, the computer properly views theconnection as a computer-readable medium. Thus, any such connection isproperly termed a computer-readable medium. Combinations of the aboveshould also be included within the scope of the computer-readable media.

While a non-transitory computer readable medium includes, but is notlimited to, a hard drive, compact disc, flash memory, volatile memory,random access memory, magnetic memory, optical memory, semiconductorbased memory, phase change memory, optical memory, periodicallyrefreshed memory, and the like; the non-transitory computer readablemedium, however, does not include a pure transitory signal per se; i.e.,where the medium itself is transitory.

It is to be understood that any exact measurements/dimensions orparticular construction materials indicated herein are solely providedas examples of suitable configurations and are not intended to belimiting in any way. Depending on the needs of the particularapplication, those skilled in the art will readily recognize, in lightof the following teachings, a multiplicity of suitable alternativeimplementation details.

As will now be described below with reference to the figures, manyembodiments of the present invention may provide a software and/or dataprocessing architecture that may process multiple lines of code/datasimultaneously. It may be contemplated that many embodiments of thepresent invention may provide processing that attempts to conceptually“go wide, long, and tall at the same time” as opposed to a conceptualhour glass processing. In many embodiments of the present invention,processing multiple lines of code/data may provide faster processingspeed, power and improved encryption/decryption. In some embodiments,thousands and/or millions of lines of code/data may be processed at asame time.

FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary computer system that, when appropriatelyconfigured or designed, may serve as a computer system 200, in which thepresent invention may be embodied. Computer system 200 may include amultiplicity of processors 202 (also referred to as central processingunits, or CPUs) that may be coupled to storage devices including aprimary storage 206 (typically a random access memory, or RAM), aprimary storage 204 (typically a read only memory, or ROM). CPU 202 maybe of various types including micro-controllers and/or nano processors,such as, and without limitation VIA Nano processors (e.g., with embeddedRAM/ROM), microprocessors such as programmable devices (e.g., RISC orSISC based, or CPLDs and FPGAs), and devices not capable of beingprogrammed such as gate array ASICs (Application Specific IntegratedCircuits) or general purpose microprocessors and/or nanoprocessors. Asis well known in the art, primary storage 204 may act to transfer dataand instructions uni-directionally to the CPU and primary storage 206may be used to transfer data and instructions in a bi-directionalmanner. The primary storage devices discussed previously may include anysuitable computer-readable media such as those described above. A massstorage device 208 may also be coupled bi-directionally to CPU 202 andmay provide additional data storage capacity and may include any of thecomputer-readable media described above. Mass storage device 208 may beused to store programs, data and the like and may be a secondary storagemedium such as a hard disk. It will be appreciated that the informationretained within the mass storage device 208, may, in appropriate cases,be incorporated by means known those skilled in the relevant art, aspart of primary storage 206 as virtual memory. A specific mass storagedevice such as, and without limitation, a CD-ROM 214 may also pass datauni-directionally to the CPU.

CPU 202 may also be coupled to an interface 210 that connects to one ormore input/output devices such as such as video monitors, track balls,mice, keyboards, microphones, touch-sensitive displays, transducer cardreaders, magnetic or paper tape readers, tablets, styluses, voice orhandwriting recognizers, or other well-known input devices such as, ofcourse, other computers. Finally, CPU 202 optionally may be coupled toan external device such as a database or a computer ortelecommunications or internet network using an external connectionshown generally as a network 212, which may be implemented as ahardwired or wireless communications link using suitable conventionaltechnologies. With such a connection, the CPU might receive informationfrom the network, or might output information to the network in thecourse of performing the method steps described in the teachings of thepresent invention.

In many embodiments of the present invention, computer system 200 may bea plane computer, wherein a plane computer may include a grouping ofthousands and/or millions of processors, and the processors may bemulti-core processors that may be stack into a square or other shape.Furthermore, the plane computer may process thousands and/or millions oflines of code/data by tasking one of each of the thousands and/ormillions of processors to read and execute one of each of the thousandsand/or millions of lines of code/data simultaneously, in a parallelfashion, on a plane. In some other embodiment the plane computer mayinclude less than thousands of processors. In other embodiments, theplane computer may include any number of processors suitable for theneeds of a particular application. In some embodiments of the presentinvention, thousands and/or millions of lines of code/data may beprocessed on one or more planes, wherein a predetermined number ofmulti-core processors may process each line of code/data within the oneor more planes. Additionally, each line of code may be processed withtheir own multi-core processor on a plane. Furthermore, a multiplicityof planes of multi-core processors may be stacked such that within eachplane, thousands of lines of code may be processed separately andsimultaneously by each one and/or a group of the predetermined number ofmulti-core processors, wherein there may be no nodes. Having no nodesmay provide great encryption abilities. For example, a million by amillion lines of code. In addition, each processor may be programmeddifferently and/or separately because each line of codes are processedseparately. In some embodiments, processing of each line of codeseparately with different processors helps alleviate hacking of thesystem because each processor only reads or executes lines of code init's assigned plane. In an alternative embodiment, the system includes aplurality of nodes where data gets switched back and forth between thelines of code.

FIG. 3, illustrates an exemplary plane 300 of the plane computer, inaccordance with an embodiment of the present invention. As illustrated,by way of example, and without limitation, a plane may include amultiplicity of processors that may process a multiplicity of lines ofcode/data respectively, in parallel, wherein a sampling of themultiplicity of lines of code may be denoted as a first line ofcode/data 305 and an n-th line of code/data 310 where n may be anypositive integer. Furthermore, each line of code/data of themultiplicity of lines of code/data may be processed by one or moreprocessors, wherein the one or more processors may read across each lineof code/data, to execute the line of code/data and possibly produceoutput without the one or more processors potentially having to proceeddown from one line of code/data to another line of code/data since eachvertically differing line of code/data may be processed by acorresponding one or more processors. It may be contemplated that byprocessing the lines of code separately with separate processors withoutnodes, an external source may encounter more difficulty when attemptingto read and/or hack the code/data of the system. Those skilled in theart will appreciate that from a theoretical point of view, one potentialtheory of operation may be that without nodes and with separatedprocessors, cross communication through the nodes may not be readilyavailable, therefore potential access into one processor and thus oneline of code/data may not allow access to other processors and thusother lines of code/data. Furthermore, each processor may include adifferent operating configuration, wherein an operating configurationmay include a particular hardware configuration and programmingconfiguration, such that in a case that a hacking technique may gainaccess to a particular processor with a particular operatingconfiguration, the hacking technique may not also gain access to theother processors, wherein each may have a different operatingconfiguration. In some embodiments planes of the system may include amultiplicity of intra-plane and/or inter-plane nodes or a combinationthereof. In some embodiments, by way of example, and without limitation,an exemplary, and without limitation, plane computer system may includean exemplary, without limitation, 32 lines of code/data on a plane,wherein each line of code/data may be processed by one or moremulti-core processers such that the exemplary plane computer system mayinclude at least 32 multi-core processors, furthermore, by further wayof example, and without limitation, one or more particular lines of codeon the plane may be processed by more than one processor such that, theexemplary plane computer system may include more than 32 multi-coreprocessors.

While the embodiments have exemplified that a plane computer system maybe shown by way of example, and without limitation, using a singleplane, it may contemplated that those skilled in the art, in light ofthe teachings of the present invention, will readily recognize andappreciate that the teachings of the present invention may be applied tousing a multiplicity of stacked planes, wherein any number of themultiplicity of stacked planes may be suitable for the needs of aparticular application and also may be stacked to form substantially anyshape suitable for the needs of the particular application. By way ofexample, and not limitation, suitable alternative configurations mayinclude multi-core processors stacked in a cube, round, or circularshape.

FIG. 4, illustrates an exemplary configuration of a multiplicity ofplanes of a plane computer system 400, in accordance with an embodimentof the present invention. As illustrated, by way of example, and withoutlimitation, a multiplicity of planes may be stacked and may beconfigured as a cube, wherein a sampling of planes may be denoted as afirst plane 405 (ACDB) and an m-th plane 410 (EGHF), where m may be anypositive integer. Furthermore, plane computer system 400, may include amultiplicity of processors that may process a multiplicity of lines ofcode/data respectively in parallel, wherein the multiplicity of lines ofcode/data may be denoted as a first line of code/data 415, an n-th lineof code/data 420 where n may be any positive integer, and an x-th lineof code/data 425 where x may be a multiplicative product of n and m.Moreover, each line of code/data may be processed by a corresponding oneor more processors in parallel such that plane computer system 400 mayinclude at least an x number of processors, furthermore, one or moreparticular lines of the x number of lines of code/data may be processedby more than one processor such that plane computer system 400 mayinclude a total number of processor that may be greater than x. In someembodiments plane computer system 400, may include one thousand lines ofcode/data, wherein each of the one thousand lines of code/data may beprocessed by one or more multi-core processers stacked to make a cube,such that the plane computer system may include at least one thousandmulti-core processors or more than one thousand multi-core processors.In another embodiment, plane computer system 400 may include one millionlines of code/data, wherein each of the one million lines of code/datamay be processed by one or more multi-core processers, such that theplane computer system may include at least one million multi-coreprocessors or more than one million multi-core processors. In anotherembodiment, plane computer system 400 may include one trillion lines ofcode/data, wherein each of the one trillion lines of code/data may beprocessed by one or more multi-core processers, such that the planecomputer system may include at least one trillion multi-core processorsor more than one trillion multi-core processors. In many embodiments,plane computer system 400 may also include a frame which may house themultiplicity of processors, wherein the fame may be an optimal cubeshape. Those skilled in the art, in light of and in accordance with theteachings of the present invention may readily recognize that the framemay be configured as substantially any shape suitable for the needs of aparticular application, wherein shape considerations may depend on forexample, and without limitation, space requirements, preexistingstructures, maximizing space usage efficiently, etc.

In some alternative embodiments of the present invention, data outputfrom each processor, after processing each line of code/data, may bepassed into one or more gathering processors, wherein the one or moregathering processors may be programmed to process the output data, as awhole, for further use by other components of a plane computer system.

FIG. 5 illustrates an exemplary configuration 500 of processors of aplane computer system, in accordance with an embodiment of the presentinvention. In the present alternative embodiment, and with reference toFIG. 3, plane computer system 505, may further include a same gatheringprocessor 510 operably coupled to each of a multiplicity of processorsprocessing first line of code/data 305 through n-th line of code/data310 respectively, of plane 300, in order to possibly receive output datafrom a potentially processed first through nth line of code/data where nmay be any positive integer.

Furthermore FIG. 6, illustrates another exemplary configuration 600 ofprocessors of a plane computer system, in accordance with an embodimentof the present invention. In the present alternative embodiment, andwith reference to FIG. 4 and FIG. 5, plane computer system 605, mayfurther include a multiplicity of gathering processors and amultiplicity of planes of processors, wherein each of a multiplicity ofgathering processors may be operably coupled to a corresponding plane ofprocessors respectively. Furthermore, each gathering processor, operablycoupled to a corresponding plane of processors, may particularly beoperably coupled to each processor within a respective plane, asillustrated in FIG. 5, such that plane computer 605 may include a samenumber of planes and gathering processors. Furthermore, each gatheringprocessor may possibly receive output data from a potentially processedfirst through n-th line of code/data, where n may be any positiveinteger, from each corresponding plane. A sampling of the multiplicityof gathering processors may be denoted as a first gathering processor610 and an m-th gathering processor 615, wherein m may be any positiveinteger and a sampling of the multiplicity of plans may be denoted as afirst plane 405 and an m-th plane 410. Plane computer system 605 mayfurther include a focusing processor 620, wherein a focusing processorsmay be couple to the first through m-th gathering processors. Thefocusing processor may further be programed to process output data fromthe first through m-th gathering processors, as a whole, for further useby other components of a plane computer system. It may be contemplatedthat an amount of data to be processed by the gathering processors maybe greatly reduced by processing performed by each processor for eachline of code/data, furthermore, an amount of data to be processed by thefocusing processor may also be greatly reduced by processing performedby each of the gathering processors.

While the embodiments have exemplified that a plane computer system maybe shown by way of example, and without limitation, using a singlegathering processor per plane and also using a single focusingprocessor, it may contemplated that those skilled in the art, in lightof the teachings of the present invention, will readily recognize andappreciate that the teachings of the present invention may be applied tousing a multiplicity of gathering processors per plane and also amultiplicity of focusing processors, wherein substantially any number ofgathering processors may be configured to be operably coupled tosubstantially any number of planes, and furthermore, substantially anynumber of focusing processors may be configured to be operable coupledto the substantially any number the multiplicity of gathering processorsfor the suitable needs of a particular application. Moreover,substantially any configuration may be used for the needs of theparticular application, such as, and without limitation, particulargathering processors possibly being operably coupled to more than oneplane, while other gathering processors may only be operably couple toone corresponding plane, and also a particular focusing processor may beoperably coupled to a subset of gathering processors while anotherfocusing processor may be operably coupled to the remaining gatheringprocessors. In a case that a multiplicity of focusing processingprocessors may be utilized, the focusing processors may be operablecoupled to each other in a decreasing cascading organization.

FIG. 7 illustrates a software module architecture 700 of an exemplaryplane computer system 705, in accordance with an embodiment of thepresent invention. In the present alternative embodiment, and withreference to FIG. 4, the plane computer system may include amultiplicity of processing modules organized on a multiplicity ofplanes, wherein the multiplicity of processing modules may includeexecutable computer-readable instructions that when executed may causethe processing modules to potentially process a multiplicity of lines ofcode/data, respectively. A sampling of the multiplicity of processingmodules may be denoted as a first processing module 710 and an x-thprocessing module 715, where x may be any positive integer and mayrepresent a total number of lines of code/data, furthermore, a samplingof the multiplicity of planes may be denoted as a first plane 720 and anm-th plane 725, where m may be any positive integer and may represent atotal number of planes. The plane computer system may further include amultiplicity of gathering modules that may be operably coupled to asubset of the multiplicity of processing modules, wherein themultiplicity of gathering modules may include executablecomputer-readable instructions that when executed may cause thegathering modules to receive and further process output from the subsetof the multiplicity of processing modules. A sampling of themultiplicity of gathering modules may be denoted as a first gatheringmodule 730 and an M-th gathering module 735, where M may be any positiveinteger and M may represent a total number of gathering modules. In manyembodiments, M may be less than or equal to the total number of lines ofcode/data. In many alternative embodiments a subset may be any numberbetween one and the total number of lines of code/data. In the presentalternative embodiment, the subset may optimally include a same numberas a number of processing modules in a plane. In some other alternativeembodiments a total number of gathering modules may be less than a totalnumber of lines of code/data and more than a total number of planes. Inyet another alternative embodiment, a total number of gathering modulesmay be less than a total number of lines of code/data and less than anumber of planes. In still another alternative embodiment a total numberof gathering modules may be more than a total number of lines ofcode/data. In the present alternative embodiment, the plane computersystem may further include a focusing module 740 which may be operablycoupled to the first through m-th gathering modules, wherein thefocusing module may further include executable computer-readableinstructions that when executed may cause the gathering module toreceive and further process output from the gathering modules in orderto process data and provide data to other components of the planecomputer system. In some alternative embodiments, the plane computersystem may include a multiplicity of focusing modules, wherein eachfocusing module may be operably coupled to a subset of gathering modulesand further may be operably coupled to another level of focusingmodules. For example, and without limitation, the plane computer systemmay include a multiplicity of focusing modules wherein a first level offocusing modules may include for example, and without limitation fivefocusing modules, wherein each focusing module may be operably coupledto a different grouping of 100 gathering modules, and also each of the 5focusing modules may be further operably coupled to a same focusingmodule in a second level. Those skilled in the relevant art, in light ofand in accordance with the teachings of the present invention willreadily recognize that substantially any number of focusing modules maybe operably coupled to substantially any number of gathering modules andother focusing modules in substantially any number of levels for theneeds suitable for particular applications.

Those skilled in the art will readily recognize, in light of and inaccordance with the teachings of the present invention, that any of theforegoing steps and/or system modules may be suitably replaced,reordered, removed and additional steps and/or system modules may beinserted depending upon the needs of the particular application, andthat the systems of the foregoing embodiments may be implemented usingany of a wide variety of suitable processes and system modules, and isnot limited to any particular computer hardware, software, middleware,firmware, microcode and the like. For any method steps described in thepresent application that can be carried out on a computing machine, atypical computer system can, when appropriately configured or designed,serve as a computer system in which those aspects of the invention maybe embodied.

It is noted that according to USA law, all claims must be set forth as acoherent, cooperating set of limitations that work in functionalcombination to achieve a useful result as a whole. Accordingly, for anyclaim having functional limitations interpreted under 35 USC § 112 (6)where the embodiment in question is implemented as a client-serversystem with a remote server located outside of the USA, each suchrecited function is intended to mean the function of combining, in alogical manner, the information of that claim limitation with at leastone other limitation of the claim. For example, in client-server systemswhere certain information claimed under 35 USC § 112 (6) is/(are)dependent on one or more remote servers located outside the USA, it isintended that each such recited function under 35 USC § 112 (6) is to beinterpreted as the function of the local system receiving the remotelygenerated information required by a locally implemented claimlimitation, wherein the structures and or steps which enable, andbreathe life into the expression of such functions claimed under 35 USC§ 112 (6) are the corresponding steps and/or means located within thejurisdiction of the USA that receive and deliver that information to theclient (e.g., without limitation, client-side processing andtransmission networks in the USA). When this application is prosecutedor patented under a jurisdiction other than the USA, then “USA” in theforegoing should be replaced with the pertinent country or countries orlegal organization(s) having enforceable patent infringementjurisdiction over the present application, and “35 USC § 112 (6)” shouldbe replaced with the closest corresponding statute in the patent laws ofsuch pertinent country or countries or legal organization(s).

All the features disclosed in this specification, including anyaccompanying abstract and drawings, may be replaced by alternativefeatures serving the same, equivalent or similar purpose, unlessexpressly stated otherwise. Thus, unless expressly stated otherwise,each feature disclosed is one example only of a generic series ofequivalent or similar features.

It is noted that according to USA law 35 USC § 112 (1), all claims mustbe supported by sufficient disclosure in the present patentspecification, and any material known to those skilled in the art neednot be explicitly disclosed. However, 35 USC § 112 (6) requires thatstructures corresponding to functional limitations interpreted under 35USC § 112 (6) must be explicitly disclosed in the patent specification.Moreover, the USPTO's Examination policy of initially treating andsearching prior art under the broadest interpretation of a “mean for”claim limitation implies that the broadest initial search on 112(6)functional limitation would have to be conducted to support a legallyvalid Examination on that USPTO policy for broadest interpretation of“mean for” claims. Accordingly, the USPTO will have discovered amultiplicity of prior art documents including disclosure of specificstructures and elements which are suitable to act as correspondingstructures to satisfy all functional limitations in the below claimsthat are interpreted under 35 USC § 112 (6) when such correspondingstructures are not explicitly disclosed in the foregoing patentspecification. Therefore, for any invention element(s)/structure(s)corresponding to functional claim limitation(s), in the below claimsinterpreted under 35 USC § 112 (6), which is/are not explicitlydisclosed in the foregoing patent specification, yet do exist in thepatent and/or non-patent documents found during the course of USPTOsearching, Applicant(s) incorporate all such functionally correspondingstructures and related enabling material herein by reference for thepurpose of providing explicit structures that implement the functionalmeans claimed. Applicant(s) request(s) that fact finders during anyclaims construction proceedings and/or examination of patentallowability properly identify and incorporate only the portions of eachof these documents discovered during the broadest interpretation searchof 35 USC § 112 (6) limitation, which exist in at least one of thepatent and/or non-patent documents found during the course of normalUSPTO searching and or supplied to the USPTO during prosecution.Applicant(s) also incorporate by reference the bibliographic citationinformation to identify all such documents comprising functionallycorresponding structures and related enabling material as listed in anyPTO Form-892 or likewise any information disclosure statements (IDS)entered into the present patent application by the USPTO or Applicant(s)or any 3^(rd) parties. Applicant(s) also reserve its right to lateramend the present application to explicitly include citations to suchdocuments and/or explicitly include the functionally correspondingstructures which were incorporate by reference above.

Thus, for any invention element(s)/structure(s) corresponding tofunctional claim limitation(s), in the below claims, that areinterpreted under 35 USC § 112 (6), which is/are not explicitlydisclosed in the foregoing patent specification, Applicant(s) haveexplicitly prescribed which documents and material to include theotherwise missing disclosure, and have prescribed exactly which portionsof such patent and/or non-patent documents should be incorporated bysuch reference for the purpose of satisfying the disclosure requirementsof 35 USC § 112 (6). Applicant(s) note that all the identified documentsabove which are incorporated by reference to satisfy 35 USC § 112 (6)necessarily have a filing and/or publication date prior to that of theinstant application, and thus are valid prior documents to incorporatedby reference in the instant application.

Having fully described at least one embodiment of the present invention,other equivalent or alternative methods of implementing parallelcomputing according to the present invention will be apparent to thoseskilled in the art. Various aspects of the invention have been describedabove by way of illustration, and the specific embodiments disclosed arenot intended to limit the invention to the particular forms disclosed.The particular implementation of the parallel computer system may varydepending upon the particular context or application. By way of example,and not limitation, the parallel computer system and architecturesdescribed in the foregoing were principally directed to processing amultiplicity of lines of software/data implementations; however, similartechniques may instead be applied to processing data with related toweather forcasts and data, military/defense, science, government, space,climate change, engineering, search engines, security, increaseprocessing speed, spam filters, data storage, super computers, socialmedia, schools which implementations of the present invention arecontemplated as within the scope of the present invention. The inventionis thus to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternativesfalling within the spirit and scope of the following claims. It is to befurther understood that not all of the disclosed embodiments in theforegoing specification will necessarily satisfy or achieve each of theobjects, advantages, or improvements described in the foregoingspecification.

Claim elements and steps herein may have been numbered and/or letteredsolely as an aid in readability and understanding. Any such numberingand lettering in itself is not intended to and should not be taken toindicate the ordering of elements and/or steps in the claims.

The corresponding structures, materials, acts, and equivalents of allmeans or step plus function elements in the claims below are intended toinclude any structure, material, or act for performing the function incombination with other claimed elements as specifically claimed.

The corresponding structures, materials, acts, and equivalents of allmeans or step plus function elements in the claims below are intended toinclude any structure, material, or act for performing the function incombination with other claimed elements as specifically claimed. Thedescription of the present invention has been presented for purposes ofillustration and description, but is not intended to be exhaustive orlimited to the invention in the form disclosed. Many modifications andvariations will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the artwithout departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. Theembodiment was chosen and described in order to best explain theprinciples of the invention and the practical application, and to enableothers of ordinary skill in the art to understand the invention forvarious embodiments with various modifications as are suited to theparticular use contemplated.

The Abstract is provided to comply with 37 C.F.R. Section 1.72(b)requiring an abstract that will allow the reader to ascertain the natureand gist of the technical disclosure. That is, the Abstract is providedmerely to introduce certain concepts and not to identify any key oressential features of the claimed subject matter. It is submitted withthe understanding that it will not be used to limit or interpret thescope or meaning of the claims.

The following claims are hereby incorporated into the detaileddescription, with each claim standing on its own as a separateembodiment.

What is claimed is:
 1. A system comprising: a first line of code ordata; a first plane, wherein said first plane being configured toreceive said first line of code or data; a first processor, in whichsaid first processor is running a first operating configuration, whereinsaid first processor is configured to, at least read and execute orprocess said first line of code or data; a second line of code differingfrom said first line of code or data; a second plane, wherein saidsecond plane being configured to receive said second line of code ordata; a second processor, in which said second processor is running asecond operating configuration different from said first operatingconfiguration, wherein said second processor is configured to, at leastread and execute or process said second line of code separately andsimultaneously or in parallel from said first line of code or data; athird line of code differing from said first and second line of code ordata; a third plane, wherein said third plane being configured toreceive said third line of code or data; and a third processor, in whichsaid third processor is running a third operating configurationdifferent from said first and second operating configuration, whereinsaid third processor is configured to, at least read and execute orprocess said third line of code separately and simultaneously from saidfirst and second line of code or data, wherein said processing of saidfirst, second, and third lines of code or data separately andsimultaneously or in parallel with separate processors is configured toprevent an external source from reading or hacking said lines of code ordata, and wherein said processing of said first, second, and third linesof code or data separately and simultaneously with separate processorsrunning a first, second, and third operating configuration, isconfigured to further prevent or alleviate a hacking of said systemsince each processor is running different operating configurations inaddition to running different lines of code or data separately.
 2. Thesystem of claim 1, further comprising at least a fourth line of codediffering from said first, second and third lines of code or data. 3.The system of claim 2, further comprising at least a fourth plane,wherein said fourth plane being configured to receive said fourth lineof code or data.
 4. The system of claim 3, further comprising at least afourth processor, wherein said fourth processor is configured to, atleast read and execute or process said fourth line of code or data,wherein said processing of said lines of code or data separately andsimultaneously with separate processors is configured to prevent anexternal source from reading or hacking said lines of code or data. 5.The system of claim 4, in which each of said processors is configured tooperate with no nodes, wherein each of said processors having no nodesis configured to enable better encryption capability.
 6. The system ofclaim 1, further comprising at least a gathering module that isconfigured to receive output data from said first, second, and thirdprocessors, wherein said first, second, and third processors areconfigured to reduce a processing time of said output data.
 7. Thesystem of claim 6, further comprising at least a focusing module coupledto said gathering module.
 8. The system of claim 7, further comprisingat least an executable computer-readable instruction, wherein saidexecutable computer-readable instruction is configured to cause saidfocusing module to receive and further process output data from saidgathering module.
 9. The system of claim 1, further comprising at leastfour or more differing lines of code or data.
 10. The system of claim 9,further comprising at least four or more planes, wherein each of saidfour or more planes being configured to receive each of said four ormore lines of code or data.
 11. The system of claim 10, furthercomprising at least four or more processors, wherein each of said fouror more processors are configured to read or execute or process each ofsaid four or more lines of code or data with no nodes, wherein saidprocessing of said lines of code or data separately and simultaneouslywith separate processors is configured to prevent an external sourcefrom reading or hacking said lines of code or data since each processoronly reads or executes lines of code in their assigned plane, andwherein said processing of said lines of code or data separately andsimultaneously with separate processors having no nodes is configured toenable better encryption capability.
 12. The system of claim 11, inwhich each of said at least four or more processors include differentoperating configuration, wherein said different operating configurationis configured to further prevent said external source from reading orhacking said lines of code or data.
 13. The system of claim 12, furthercomprising at least a plurality of gathering module that is configuredto receive and process output data from said processors.
 14. The systemof claim 13, further comprising at least a plurality of focusing modulecoupled to said gathering module.
 15. The system of claim 14, furthercomprising at least an executable computer-readable instruction, whereinsaid executable computer-readable instruction is configured to causesaid focusing module to receive and further process output data fromsaid gathering module.
 16. A system consisting of: a first operatingconfiguration; a first line of code or data; means for running saidfirst operating configuration and for receiving said first line of codeor data; means configured to, at least read and execute or process saidfirst line of code or data; a second operating configuration; a secondline of code differing from said first line of code or data; means forrunning said second operating configuration and for receiving saidsecond line of code or data; means configured to, at least read andexecute or process said second line of code separately andsimultaneously or in parallel from said first line of code or data; athird operating configuration; a third line of code differing from saidfirst and second line of code or data; means configured to receive saidthird line of code or data and for running said third operatingconfiguration; and means configured to, at least read and execute orprocess said third line of code separately and simultaneously or inparallel from said first and second line of code or data, wherein saidprocessing of said first, second, and third lines of code or dataseparately and simultaneously or in parallel with separate processors isconfigured to prevent an external source from reading or hacking saidlines of code or data, and wherein said processing of said first,second, and the third lines of code or data separately andsimultaneously with separate processors running a first, second, andthird operating configuration, is configured to further prevent oralleviate a hacking of said system since each processor is runningdifferent operating configurations in addition to running differentlines of code or data separately.
 17. The system of claim 16, furthercomprising a first means for receiving output data from said line ofcode reading or executing means, wherein said line of code reading orexecuting means are configured to reduce a processing time of saidoutput data.
 18. The system of claim 17, further comprising a secondmeans for receiving output from said first output data receiving means.19. The system of claim 18, further comprising means configured to causesaid second output data receiving means, to receive and further processoutput data from said first output data receiving means.
 20. A methodcomprising: running, with a first processor, a first operatingconfiguration; receiving, with said first processor, a first line ofcode or data on a first computer data plane; reading said first line ofcode or data with said first processor; executing or processing saidfirst line of code or data with said first processor; running, with asecond processor, a second operating configuration; receiving, with saidsecond processor, a second line of code or data on a second computerdata plane; reading said second line of code or data separately andsimultaneously from said first line of code or data with said secondprocessor; executing or processing said second line of code or dataseparately and simultaneously or in parallel from said first line ofcode or data with said second processor; running, with a thirdprocessor, a third operating configuration; receiving, with said thirdprocessor, a third line of code or data on a third computer data plane;reading said third line of code separately and simultaneously from saidfirst and second line of code or data with said third processor;executing or processing said third line of code separately andsimultaneously or in parallel from said first and second line of code ordata with said third processor, wherein said reading and executing orprocessing of said first, second, and third lines of code or dataseparately and simultaneously or in parallel with separate processors isconfigured to prevent an external source from reading or hacking saidlines of code or data, and wherein said processing of said first,second, and third lines of code or data separately and simultaneouslywith separate processors running a first, second, and third operatingconfiguration, is configured to further prevent or alleviate a hackingof said system since each processor is running different operatingconfigurations in addition to running different lines of code or dataseparately; and receiving output data from said first, second and thirdprocessors, wherein said first, second and third processors areconfigured to reduce a processing time of said output data.